The 1992 Disney movie Aladdin has been retooled into a Broadway musical, opening this Thursday in New York. But unlike other Disney/Broadway hits — Beauty and the Beast and the long-running Lion King — Aladdin comes with baggage the size of a vest-wearing elephant.

So now that Barneys New York is owned by a Dubai-based investment firm, some (er, Lauren Goldstein Crowe of Portfolio's 'Fashion, Inc'. blog) are convinced that luxury-minded Jews are going to take their business to other luxury department stores because no way in hell will they fund something owned by, you know, Arabs…